"Slumdog Millionaire" fills cinemas.

What if only a few nominations so everything can: Even before "Slumdog Millionaire" in the Oscar-night abräumte really attracted the production of abnormally small number of viewers in the U.S. cinemas. Germany laughed about Jim Carreys inclination to say yes.

 

Hamburg - nominations are apparently just enough to the public interest for an Underdog anzuheizen: The
Oscar-clearing "Slumdog Millionaire" presented in the U.S. before the awards ceremony on Sunday at ten percent and played - now ranked five of the U.S. cinema charts - all eight million U.S. dollars one. Thus, Danny Boyle touching drama about a poor Indian, who participates in a quiz, according to "Focus on Film" is already implemented in 98 million U.S. dollars.

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"Slumdog Millionaire" Cast Freida Pinto and Dev Patel: success at the box office

Also ran a whole is good for the industry. The weekend sales were 30 percent higher than last year, not least because "96 Hours" and "Coraline" in second place and three continued to hold formidable. The revenge thriller with Liam Neeson was delighted with a minus of 40 percent more than 11.4 million U.S. dollars and now stands at 95.2 million U.S. dollars. The Stop Motion 3D animation by Henry Selick, however, built only 25 percent and has 11 million U.S. dollars at the weekend total of 53.4 million U.S. dollars into - the best result for a Selick film so far.

Spectacular was the performance of the American Boxoffice phenomenon Tyler Perry. With "Madea Goes to Jail", the comedian 41.1 million U.S. dollars to restore order and start the best weekend of the year in his last lurch precarious Lionsgate hire new stability. The third film of "Madea" series, which so far in Germany under the title "Crazy Family Feast" and "Crazy diary" video premieres were evaluated, it was also the best Lionsgate start ever and the old Primus übertrumpfte "Saw III" , with 33.6 million U.S. dollars was started.

It went downhill rapidly, however, with the remake of the slasher classic "Friday the 13th", which at a historic loss of 81 percent only 7.8 million U.S. dollars recordings. The total box office earnings of 55 million U.S. dollars. The stars filled with lots of relationship comedy "It is simply not for you" (among other things, with Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck and Scarlett Johansson) with documented 8.5 million U.S. dollars in fourth place and can be used on a total box office of 70.1 million U.S. dollars refer.

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Among this week boot in the German cinema was, according to "Focus on Film" is not Ãœberflieger. With a total of more respectable 1.8 million visitors, the industry so far the weakest weekends of the year. The race made "Lilli Witch - The Dragon and the magic book" and Jim Carreys "Der Ja-Sager", according to visitors or sales place occupied. The Disney franchise "Hexe Lilli" came in 454 cinemas around 230,000 spectators and wrote a turnover of 1.2 million euros. "Der Ja-Sager" in 579 cinemas attracted 220,000 visitors and recorded a turnover of 1.5 million euros.

Next up front with it at the German Kinogängern is the loser of the Oscar-night,
"The Strange Case of Benjamin Button". On the fourth weekend drew the filming of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story again to 170,000 cinema-goers and took the 1.5-million-visitor threshold. Fourth place went to
Tom Tykwer banks thriller "The International", which with 130,000 viewers in fourth place before "It is simply not for you" pushed it to 120,000 visitors brought.

In the United States as successful thriller "96 Hours" with Liam Neeson in Germany had a solid start in 350 cinemas with 120,000 viewers also satisfied. That he landed in front of the Turkish Sensationshit "Recep ivedik 2", on the second weekend in just under 50 percent had suffered losses, but with 100,000 Kinogängern still lies well in the race.

New in the top 20 were also
"Milk" with Oscar winner Sean Penn, who in 75 cinemas resolved to 30,000 tickets could refer, as well as
"The Bone Man" for a wolf-Haas novel. The thriller came Ösi according to "Focus on Film" in 53 cinemas to nearly 25,000 visitors and started so as good as its predecessor, "Silentium", according to Senator four years ago, a total of nearly 180,000 visitors attracted to the cinema.